OSHA Unveils Educational Push On Fall Protection, With NIOSH, Union Help

OSHA has teamed up with NIOSH and a key union-backed construction safety organization on a co-branded educational initiative to share information with employers and workers nationwide about fall hazards, identified as a top concern throughout the industry. The two agencies in recent years have been working to ramp up their collaboration on educational efforts, and the new initiative comes out of talks led by NIOSH’s National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA) for the construction sector. CPWR -- The Center for Construction Research and Training, a research arm of the AFL-CIO that serves as th